Stephens Memorial celebrates Hospital Week with Blessing of the Hands, to host annual cookout on Friday, May 16
Stephens Memorial Hospital is celebrating National Hospital Week this week, starting with the annual Blessing of the Hands with the Rev. Otho Noggle on Monday, May 12, and wrapping up with the Hospital Week Cookout tomorrow, Friday, May 16.
The annual cookout on the front lawn of the hospital, 200 S. Geneva St., will feature free hotdogs and hamburgers for the community from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Everyone is welcomed to join the hospital staff for lunch.
On Monday, a group of SMH employees gathered in a circle at the hospital’s helicopter landing pad. Rev. Noggle took a small bottle of olive oil and walked around to each person in the circle, pouring a small amount of the oil into their hands. During the service, he talked about the role the olive tree in the Bible and the history of the healing properties of olive oil. He then closed the ceremony with a prayer.
The Rev. Otho Noggle applies olive oil to the hands of Stephens Memorial Hospital employees in the annual Blessing of the Hands ceremony on Monday, May 12. (Photo by Tony Pilkington/Breckenridge Texan)
Cutline, top photo: National Hospital Week started off with the Blessing of the Hands ceremony at Stephens Memorial Hospital on Monday. The week will wrap up with the hospital’s annual community cookout on Friday, May 16. Click here to see more pictures. (Photo by Tony Pilkington/Breckenridge Texan)
Editor’s Note: This story was updated at 6:15 p.m. Thursday, May 15, to correct the date in the headline.
